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I've noticed an alarming increase in false positives being detected by Google Apps For Domains GMail spam detection. It is so bad actually that I'd rather turn off GMail spam detection altogether. My own service SimpleFilter does a much much better job at spam detection and so much less false positive that I have to […]

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Having some of this Gretzky field sense myself, if I may say so, I think they are a bit off base in this article. At least in the examples given they don't apply to Gretzky's field sense whatsoever in my opinion. For the tennis and volleyball examples, one is training on being able to predict […]

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From Orbitcast: Andretti Green Racing's partnership with XM Satellite Radio has more to do than just talk shows and sponsorships. AGR used XM WX Weather for up-to-the-second intelligence during the rain-soaked Indy 500 as part of their arsenal of tech tools. While other teams were relying on local weather forecasts to layout their strategies, AGR […]

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I've been using the YUI (Yahoo User Interface) Library for a while now and had a need for a pretty complicated table/grid and decided to give their DataTable a try. It is still in beta and probably why I ran into a few quirks and bugs I just couldn't work around. So I gave ActiveWidgets […]

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The update to Google Analytics seems to be really slick. Checkout the blog post about it here.

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Interesting: The Securities and Exchange Commission this morning suspended trading in the securities of 35 companies that have been the subject of recent and repeated spam email campaigns (see examples). The trading suspensions – the most ever aimed at spammed companies – were ordered because of questions regarding the adequacy and accuracy of information about […]

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Michael Geist has the full blog post here: If true, this form of network interference – implemented with virtually no transparency and now affecting basic Internet services such as email – demonstrates why a dedicated consumer complaints commission is a good start, but a place to complain is not enough.  The solution lies in creating […]

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Excellent post by Justin on why SAV isn't that useful in fighting spam: Some view this as a useful anti-spam technique. In my opinion, it’s not. Spam/anti-spam is an adversarial “game”. Whenever you’re considering anti-spam techniques, it’s important to bear in mind game theory, and the possible countermeasures that spammers will respond with. Before SAV […]

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Dave says that most RSS readers are wrong. Well, I hate to tell him that he is wrong. He'd never understand that but it is just plain true. Dave still doesn't understand that people have different ways of working and different views. I used a river of news view with his Radio Userland product many […]

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I've been slowly moving my various domain's email management to Google Apps For Your Domain. After a bit of success I let Brent know and he is happily also using Google Apps Gmail thingy. One thing I noticed right away since I let things run outside of our SimpleFilter corporate service is that a ton […]

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